Sash fastener



F. J. HART ET AL SASH FASTENER Filed June 1l 1926 WITNESS:

Patented Aug. 2, 1927.

sra'rss E T @Ewe FRANK J. HART Ann DANIEL w. McGEE, or roar woarrr, TEXAS; SAID Mean- ASSIGNOR TO SAID HART.

SASH FASTENER.

Application filed June 11, 1926.

This invention relates to a combined sash fastener and anti-rattling device, the general object of the invention being to provide a member which is hingedly connected to one sash and has a part adapted to engage the other sash in such a manner as to setup a wedge action which will prevent the sashes from being moved and also to prevent rattling of the sashes.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for so connecting the member to its base that it can be easily assembled and the cost of manufacture will be materially cheapened.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pecifically pointed out in the appended aim.

In describing our invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the sev eral views, and in which Figure 1 is a sectional View through a window and its sashes, showing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is an elevation of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view of the device with the parts separated.

In these views, 1 indicates the base member which is made in the form of an elongated plate adapted to be fastened by screws 2 or the like to the top rail of the lower sash A of a window. The inner end of the plate is provided with a depending portion 3 which is adapted to it in a recess made in the outer edge of the top rail, as shown in Figure 1. A notch 4 is made in the outer end of the plate 1 and the prongs left by said notch are bent into hook shape, as shown at 5, with their vertical walls flat and extended at right angles to the plate 1, as shown at 6. The extremities of the parts 5 are spaced from the plate 1 for a purpose to be hereinafter described, and the junction of said parts 5 with the plate is located a distance from the inner end of the notch 4E. The wedge member 7 is also formed of an elongated plate, with its outer end bent into hook shape, as shown at 8, and its other end Serial No. 115,303.

of the upper sash B and pressed firmly thereagainst, a wedge action will be set up which will not only prevent rattling of the sashes, but will also prevent sliding move ment of the sashes as either a downward movement of the upper sash or an upward movement of the lower sash would cause the part 8 of member 7 to press more firmly against the sash B and thus prevent movement of either sash. By making the parts 6 flat, a good bearing is afforded the edges of the parts 10 when the member 7 is in operative position, and there is no danger of the member 7 slipping as there would be if the walls 6 were made round. As shown in Figure 1, the plate 1 projects inwardly beyond the top rail of the sash A so that the member 2 can hang therefrom, as shown in dotted lines. will permit the parts to assume this position.

This device can be made to be manufactured at a low cost, as it consists of but the two parts attached together in the manner described.

e prefer to punch the holes in the member 1, as'shown in Figure 2, so as to form projecting portions which can be hammered into the sash when putting the device in place so that they will hold the plate in position until the screws are put in place.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of our invention will be readily apparent.

l Ve desire it to be understood that we may make changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What we claim is A device of the class described comprising a base plate having prongs at one end thereof which are bentupwardly into hook shape,

The extension of the slot 4 I asecond plate having a hook at one end and receive the neck formed by the notches of its other end notched at the sides thereof to the second plate when said second plate de' form trunnions for engaging the hookpends from the first plate.

shaped parts of the first plate, the vertical In testnnony whereof We atfix our signaportions of the hooks being fiat to prevent tures.

' slipping movement of the trunnions and the FRANK J. HART.

space between the prongs being extended to DANiEL W. MoGEE v 

